Marble Base
Unknown Artist
Marble base, called a kilga, with a Kufic inscription: "Perfect blessings and grace and eternal glory and eternal happiness and eternal good luck." Kilga bases supported large porous ceramic jars that ended in a point, from which water would drip and collect in the basin. Egypt, 12th c.
12th c.
Marble
0.33 x 0.48 x 0.32 m
GE 10833
Image and text courtesy of Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, 2022
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